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X has a what-if about Zero gnawing at his mind, at some indeterminate point after the events of Power Cycle. Fortunately, the best advice-giver in a ten mile radius is always there for him...even if it is an ambulatory hat.
I still think it's great that Mack has the absolute highest hypothetical wisdom stat out of all of the cast, and I wish I could have worked it into Power Cycle a little more, so I'm making up for lost time. (And maybe also a little bit processing some things of my own, because who isn't, man.)
This is once again in the Every Endverse, so if you haven't read at least the main three in the series, it's not gonna make a whole ton of sense.
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- Part 8 of Every End A Beginning
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Mr. X Goes to Preschool (And It Goes Just About As One Might Expect) by Afniel
Fandoms: Rockman X | Mega Man X
23 Sep 2025
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X gets roped into spending a day at preschool, for PR reasons. Initially, at least.
Finally, a story where the rest of the series is not at all required reading! Technically it really is same continuity, but it's a silly little standalone.
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- Part 7 of Every End A Beginning
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Cracking Open A Cold One With The Boys (And Other Genders/Lack Thereof) by Afniel
Fandoms: Rockman X | Mega Man X
10 Jun 2025
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After the events of the main trilogy, X and company still manage to find the time to Sit Around A Thermal Reaction And Bullshit. And hey, this time Diego, his network, and Dynamo are in town.
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- Part 6 of Every End A Beginning
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Illustrated!
The world of 2214 is not kind to reploids, despite X's best efforts. The biosupremacist terrorist group Vanguard grows ever more aggressive, and there's only so much that a scrappy Maverick resistance group can do to combat them, even if that group happens to include the progenitor of all reploids. X finds himself in the precarious position of balancing his public image against his secret life in the underground Maverick city of Enoch, and balancing all of that against his increasingly unstable mental health and crumbling physical health...neither of which are improved by his own fears over having caught and integrated the Maverick Virus into his own code. As the Abel City Police build towards a massive power play over the Maverick Hunters, X and his friends suddenly become the final line of defense between all of reploidkind and those who would see them enslaved, if not destroyed. And if that weren't enough to worry about on its own, X seems to be missing some key memories and also developing some troubling new Viral capabilities of his own.
But no pressure or anything, right? It could still be worse. Somehow.
At least X finally got that nap. He'll need it...
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- Part 5 of Every End A Beginning
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Arc and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Afniel
Fandoms: Rockman X | Mega Man X
30 Sep 2024
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An oddly familiar Maverick with a really cool Ride Chaser and his questionably stable friend rescue an unhoused reploid from a group of biosupremacists. Standalone preview/worldbuilding snippet from the upcoming final story in the series.
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- Part 4 of Every End A Beginning
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Scarred both mentally and physically from the Maverick War, disabled and honorably discharged, and bereft of his only true friend, X never learned how to be a person, let alone how to deal with everything he endured to save the earth. A chance encounter with a handful of Mavericks living in Abel City's quarantine zone who show him more kindness than he knows how to process changes the entire trajectory of his lonely life.
Now he's questioning everything he thought he knew about Maverickism, making friends in low places that he didn't know he needed or even wanted, and seeing the deep cracks in the system that he himself helped to build.
How far is X willing to go to protect his newfound family from an outside world that discriminates against reploids?
What will it take for him to be able to heal?
What does he even want out of life, now that he's learning that he's allowed to want things?
And maybe most importantly, is he ever going to get a decent nap?
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They would dissect him down to the last bolt if they thought X could give them one more miracle.
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AU pre-x1, where the government never let X go after the creation of reploids. Aided by Dr. Cain and the resistance, Zero embarks on a rescue.
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24 Feb 2026
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i am an exit by arboreal_debris
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
13 May 2026
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A broken, disillusioned Steve Rogers is afflicted by a delusion that the mysterious assassin who nearly killed him is actually his best friend, who died 70 years ago. SHIELD wants to lock him up and return him to being a perfect, sparkling nationalist symbol as quickly as possible. Sam Wilson, who has wrestled with his own disillusionment and his own ghosts, knows that Steve needs compassion and the support of a true friend, not a forced regime of recovery that takes away what is left of his shattered autonomy.
Meanwhile, as Natasha tries to track down the Winter Soldier, her discoveries get more and more disturbing. She uncovers footage of the Soldier being subjected to, and forced to commit, horrific acts to maintain Hydra's cruel hierarchy. What's more, his resemblance to Steve's dead friend is too close to be coincidence. Sam and Natasha grow determined to stop the Soldier from being recaptured by his abusers, but how will Steve react when he learns the true extent of the Soldier's torture, and the true horror of what he was twisted into?
Is the Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes? Or is he a thing wearing Bucky Barnes's face?
Which of those things is worse?
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16 Feb 2026
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Even in the face of change, your old enemies can help.
It’s about saving who you hate, fragile bodies, and a slow end of a fast world.
Individual chapters are CWed in beginning notes.
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30 Dec 2025
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Beauty by SaltySaph, Tilea
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
16 Jan 2026
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A century after the defeat of the Demon King, the first male is born to the gerudo in recorded history. Fearing the worst but unwilling to slay a newborn, the gerudo dedicate the babe to the nearby Sheikan monastery, where he is raised in the ways of peace, mmindfulness, and discipline.
Twenty-five years later, Ganondorf finds himself frequently visited by visions of a domestic life lived with a gorgeous hylian man, and despite his extensive training, is unable to banish the tempting not-dreams. With the blessings of his sheikah elders, he sets off on a pilgrimage of discovery, searching for the source of these visions and the mysterious blue-eyed beauty that looks upon him as no one else does: with love.
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09 Dec 2025
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Emily Stanton, alone and then with company, ruminates on the two most important men in her life.
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- Part 2 of Proto-Verse Fics
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04 Dec 2025